{"id":12236,"date":"2016-08-09T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/rpg-a-day-august-9-what-things-are-a-part-of-your-ideal-session-other-than-the-actual-game\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T07:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T07:22:01","slug":"rpg-a-day-august-9-what-things-are-a-part-of-your-ideal-session-other-than-the-actual-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/rpg-a-day-august-9-what-things-are-a-part-of-your-ideal-session-other-than-the-actual-game\/","title":{"rendered":"RPG A Day, August 9: What things are a part of your ideal session, other than the actual game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More and more, I treasure a diverse group of players. A table full of white dudes is a missed opportunity for a better game, I think. More women. More kids. More people from backgrounds I don&#39;t share, bringing elements to the table that otherwise would never be there.<\/p>\n<p>Also? Laughter. I don&#39;t want to screw around, but I want to have fun, and while tension can be fun, I want to see smiles, even if they&#39;re caused by pained chuckles from bad die rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Finally: engagement. Throw in your ideas. Get excited and start making stuff up. That&#39;s my favorite thing.<\/p>\n<p><b>Edit to add<\/b>: Like <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107546859603511405188\" oid=\"107546859603511405188\">Richard Rogers<\/a><\/span>, I play mostly over Hangouts or Roll20 these days, so I would be remiss if I did not mention how much good, reliable tech contributes to a good session. Solid connections, good sound, considerate microphone use, et cetera.<\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/105138568577624786912\/albums\/6316867999656917297\/6316868003770990658'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-FwE0EgO_dQA\/V6oF-zHNAEI\/AAAAAAABAQQ\/zlQ1XiFUtIYi10enQUdAgpqombN_tQgWA\/rpg-a-day.jpg?imgmax=550' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(\"\");'><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more, I treasure a diverse group of players. A table full of white dudes is a missed opportunity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,115,141],"class_list":["post-12236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-gaming","tag-google","tag-rpgaday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12237,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236\/revisions\/12237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}